In this thread I'll be compiling all the detrimental effects that our response to COVID19 have caused. Mind you, no matter what the headlines of many of these articles try to claim, SARS-COV2 is a respiratory virus that causes respiratory symptoms. It cannot cause any of these other things. Let's begin.

##Mental health:

**1 in 5 adults developed mental disorders** - https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/science/1-in-5-adults-developed-pandemic-related-mental-disorders-analysis/article33417333.ece

**1 in 4 young adults suicidal** - https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/mental-health/527380-75-percent-of-young-adults-mentally-struggling-with

**Effects of isolation on elderly** - (1) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25697700/

(2) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/us/nursing-homes-isolation-virus.html

(3) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5847278/

(4) https://trib.com/opinion/columns/crocher-rather-death-by-covid-than-death-by-loneliness/article_ca571a33-8e97-5c4e-b285-20d73b011aa2.html

(5) https://ewn.co.za/2020/10/01/elderly-hardest-hit-by-covid-19-as-lockdown-loneliness-impacts-mental-health

(6) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-16/covid-19-isolation-sees-some-aged-care-residents-giving-up/12655642

(7) https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18590724.sedation-manage-lockdown-distress-may-led-dementia-deaths/

**Effects of isolation on the future health of children** - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/205331

https://www.unicef.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Unicef-UK-Children-In-Lockdown-Coronavirus-Impacts-Snapshot.pdf

**Young people in HK struggling with mental illness** - https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/alarming-rise-in-hong-kong-young-people-struggling-with-mental-health-issues-amid-covid-19-pandemic-experts-warn/ar-BB1a7CSq

**Mental illness in children rising due to lockdowns** - https://newschannel20.com/news/local/hospitals-see-high-rates-of-mental-illness-in-children-during-pandemic

**Half of young adults showing signs of depression** - https://fee.org/articles/harvard-researchers-nearly-half-of-young-adults-showing-signs-of-depression-amid-pandemic/

**The mental health of students** - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-55105044

https://www.clickondetroit.com/health/good-health/2020/11/18/studies-reveal-alarming-trends-of-anxiety-depression-among-young-adults-during-covid-19-pandemic/

**Suicidal thoughts greater in those under restrictions and unchanged in those without any** - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178120323477

**Prevalence of depression before and after in the US** - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2770146

**Cases of depression in the US have tripled** - https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/us-cases-of-depression-have-tripled-during-the-covid-19-pandemic

**Quote from Robert Redfield: "*But there has been another cost that we’ve seen, particularly in high schools. We’re seeing, sadly, far greater suicides now than we are deaths from COVID. We’re seeing far greater deaths from drug overdose that are above excess that we had as background than we are seeing the deaths from COVID."*** - https://www.buckinstitute.org/covid-webinar-series-transcript-robert-redfield-md/

**Washington Department of Health says depression will increase massively** - https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/BHG-COVID19StatewideSummaryForecastofBHImpacts-July2020Update.pdf

**US Census shows 48% of Wa adults have depression** - https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2020/demo/hhp/hhp15.html#tables

**Lockdowns pose great threat to mental health** - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/27/covid-poses-greatest-threat-to-mental-health-since-second-world-war

https://archive.vn/mAuWS


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##Suicides:

https://abc7news.com/suicide-covid-19-coronavirus-rates-during-pandemic-death-by/6201962/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/dealing-with-a-lot-suicide-crisis-calls-mount-during-covid-19-pandemic-1.5215056

**Suicides among black people spiked during lockdowns** - https://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-black-suicides-pandemic-20201216-2g46em2d2nd5vjwlu7q2uq5x6y-story.html

**Suicides up sharply in Toronto** - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-suicides-on-the-ttc-have-risen-sharply-over-the-last-eight-months/

**Projected increase in suicides in Canada** - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7236718/

**Trends in suicide during the pandemic** - https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4352

**Canadians in quarantine twice as likely to have suicidal thoughts** - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/quarantine-mental-health-1.5809865

**Military suicides up 20%** - https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-09-27/military-suicides-increase-covid-19-pandemic

**Suicides up among children** - https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/09/24/cook-childrens-alarming-rise-suicide-patients/

**Male suicides up** - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/01/male-suicide-rate-england-wales-covid-19


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##Economy and Poverty:

**8 million Americans pushed into poverty** - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/16/poverty-rising/

**A year of lockdowns has destroyed a decade of progress** - https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid-19-development-progress-reversed-1.5849383

**10k Canadian restaurants gone forever** - https://www.narcity.com/en-ca/eat-drink/canadian-restaurant-closures-reach-10000-in-2020-the-job-loss-numbers-are-shocking

**Black and Latino tnenats more affected by evictions** - https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/15/the-most-lopsided-economic-event-imaginable-wave-of-evictions-threatens-black-latino-tenants-445387

**Economic importance of in-person school** - https://www.nber.org/papers/w28200

**The 8 month lockdown in Buenos Aires forced more people into poverty** - https://archive.vn/MoaOx

**150 million people forced into extreme poverty** - https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/10/07/covid-19-to-add-as-many-as-150-million-extreme-poor-by-2021

**Lockdowns driving NYC homelessness up** - https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/12/09/covid-pandemic-driving-homelessness-in-nyc-to-record-levels-advocates-say/

**Economic well-being of millenials at risk** - https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/201210/dq201210b-eng.htm

**10k US restaurants forced to close** - https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/business/restaurant-closures-coronavirus/index.html

**Economic toll on young Americans** - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/09/coronavirus-young-economy-unemployment-mental-health

**2 million UK families pushed into poverty** - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/09/covid-driven-recession-likely-to-push-2m-uk-families-into-poverty

**India's economic recover slower for women** - https://www.livemint.com/news/india/india-s-post-covid-recovery-in-employment-has-not-been-equal-for-men-and-women-11605509801472.html

**NYC bankruptcies surge 40%** - https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/new-york-bankruptcies-reportedly-surge-40percent-during-pandemic.html

**National lockdowns pushing up to 100 million people into poverty** - https://www.economist.com/international/2020/09/26/the-pandemic-is-plunging-millions-back-into-extreme-poverty?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/fromplaguetopenurythepandemicisplungingmillionsbackintoextremepovertyinternational&__twitter_impression=true

**Statement from German Minister of Finance** - https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/coronakrise-entwicklungsminister-mueller-an-den-folgen-der-lockdowns-werden-weit-mehr-menschen-sterben-als-am-virus/26209144.html

**European small businesses closing** - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-22/half-of-europe-s-smaller-businesses-risk-bankruptcy-within-year?sref=RJ2RlMrh

**Lockdowns and lack of tourism may increase poverty in Africa** - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/safaris-and-wildlife/africa-crisis-loss-tourism-threatens-widespread-poverty-extinctions/

**Nearly half of South Africa's small businesses closed thanks to lockdowns** - https://businesstech.co.za/news/business/455100/lockdown-forced-nearly-half-of-small-businesses-in-south-africa-to-close-study/

**New Zealand's success story pushed 70k children into poverty** - https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/covid-19-deals-big-blow-reducing-child-poverty-in-nz

**90% of New Zealanders who lost their jobs were women** - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/25/new-zealand-is-in-a-shecession-so-where-is-the-much-needed-she-covery

**Thousands of Aucklanders turn to food banks** - https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/423952/thousands-of-aucklanders-turning-to-food-banks

**Fewer children are being born** - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/16/covid-19-baby-bust-coronavirus-pandemic-lead-birth-decline/6507974002/


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##Hunger and Starvation:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/food-banks-sound-alarm-child-hunger-covid-crisis-drags-n1252368

https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/mid-day-meals-stopped-after-lockdown-karnataka-child-malnutrition-sees-spike-140043

**UNICEF for the first time having to feed UK children** - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-55348047

**168k child hunger deaths predicted in Africa** - https://apnews.com/article/africa-hunger-study-coronavirus-children-0e2a17d63163d8558d203b2824a844fe

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-123716/v1

**82% increase in food insecurity** - https://www.wfp.org/news/world-food-programme-assist-largest-number-hungry-people-ever-coronavirus-devastates-poor

https://insight.wfp.org/world-must-step-up-not-back-to-avoid-coronavirus-induced-hunger-pandemic-a745944bc9e9

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/20/nyregion/nyc-food-banks.html

**Oxfam on increased hunger deaths** - https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/hunger-virus-how-covid-19-fuelling-hunger-hungry-world?cid=aff_affwd_donate_id78888&awc=5991_1602271444_d1341487f388f59fb9852d0a4261b6e3

**More Americans are shoplifting food** - https://archive.is/tWWWp

**2 million Filipino families starving because of lockdowns** - https://manilastandard.net/mobile/article/341687

**UN says famine and lockdown fallout in 2021 will be catastrophic** - https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/un-warns-that-2021-could-be-catastrophic-due-to-covid19-fallout-and-famine/news-story/af6ad98c72e1e6c14456df51dd3a2171

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/3/covid-19-fallout-for-decades-to-come-un-chief

**130 million additional people will have food insecurity** - https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/09/1072712

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-n-warns-hunger-pandemic-amid-threats-coronavirus-economic-downturn-n1189326

**10k additional children a month could die of hunger** - https://in.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN26Z1VR

https://abcnews.go.com/US/coronavirus-updates-hunger-due-covid-19-killing-10000/story?id=72025029

**6k children a die die thanks to lockdown hunger** - https://pcpj.org/2020/10/11/6000-children-die-of-hunger-caused-by-corona-every-day/

**Almost 1.2 million babies could die because of lockdowns** - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/almost-12-million-babies-could-die-during-the-pandemic-but-not-from-the-coronavirus-2020-07-02

**Hunger crisis to affect up to 132 million people in sub-Saharan Africa because of lockdowns** - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02281-w?sf236625656=1


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##Other Effects on Children:

**Poor students suffering in online classes** - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-21/affluent-families-ditch-public-schools-widening-u-s-inequality

**Lockdowns fuel child labor** - https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/rest-of-africa/lockdown-fuels-child-labour-in-zimbabwe-3230912

https://news.trust.org/item/20200820135640-yl2ii/?utm_campaign=trending&utm_medium=trendingWebWidget&utm_source=detailPage&utm_content=link4

**FGM up in Africa** - https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/covid-19-school-closures-end-fgm-in-kenya/

**Child marriage up** - https://apnews.com/article/international-news-business-coronavirus-pandemic-sierra-leone-united-nations-9a9ab4f71adc1c6f7d435b744411fb90?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

**School closures are bad** - https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202012.0199/v1

**Negatives of school closures more than benefits** - https://www.unicef.org/media/86881/file/Averting-a-lost-covid-generation-world-childrens-day-data-and-advocacy-brief-2020.pdf

**Teen pregnance in Kenya up** - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/dec/24/sex-for-sanitary-pads-how-kenyas-lockdown-led-to-a-rise-in-teenage-pregnancy

**Negative impacts of lockdowns on children** - https://www.unicef.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Unicef-UK-Children-In-Lockdown-Coronavirus-Impacts-Snapshot.pdf

**Sharp rise of eating disorders in children** - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55468632


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##Substance Abuse:

**OD deaths at highest point in 12 month period** - https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p1218-overdose-deaths-covid-19.html

**Canadian OD deaths** - (1) https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/mobile/alberta-sets-record-904-opioid-deaths-to-date-in-2020-cites-covid-19-as-factor-1.5238113

(2) https://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/overdose-deaths-reach-1-386-in-b-c-1.24245322

(3) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/opioid-cases-increase-first-half-of-2020-1.5697199

(4) https://globalnews.ca/news/7482310/overdose-deaths-saskatchewan/

**US ODs rising** - https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/18/us/cdc-pandemic-fatal-drug-overdoses-rise/index.html

**More people are using drugs** - https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-people-are-taking-drugs-for-anxiety-and-insomnia-and-doctors-are-worried-11590411600

**Fentanyl ODs up 60%** - https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/09/14/fentanyl-related-overdose-deaths-increase-more-60-march

**Every week of lockdowns increases binge drinking** - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201207091306.htm


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##Domestic/Sexual Abuse:

**US lockdowns trigger surge in domestic abuse** - https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200410/us-lockdowns-trigger-surge-in-domestic-violence

**Child abuse up in Uganda because of lockdowns** - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jpc.15289

**Child abuse up** - https://www.wcvb.com/article/health-experts-note-pandemics-possible-impacts-on-child-abuse/34932582

**School closures inhibit child abuse reports** - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7441889/

**Domestic violence up** - https://www.king5.com/article/news/community/incidents-of-domestic-violence-are-skyrocketing-during-covid/281-c8d650b6-b568-437b-948c-861768e92a57

**Male domestic abuse up** - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-54237409

**Abuse more severe during lockdowns** - https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ts/news/canada/2020/11/25/canada-wide-survey-of-womens-shelters-shows-abuse-more-severe-during-pandemic.html

**Child sexual abuse underreported during lockdowns** - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54169197

https://abcnews.go.com/US/child-abuse-risk-remains-concern-amid-continued-covid/story?id=74749711

**Childline reports surge** - https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/childline-reports-surge-in-contacts-during-very-difficult-year-1.4444773?mode=amp


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##Undiagnosed Diseases:

**Cancer diagnoses down** - (1) https://www.cancernetwork.com/view/delay-in-cancer-screening-and-diagnosis-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-what-is-the-cost

(2) https://www.ajmc.com/view/lung-cancer-screenings-drop-biopsy-rates-rise-during-covid-19

(3) https://www.onclive.com/view/covid-19-drives-decreases-in-cancer-screening-diagnoses-and-treatments

(4) https://www.journalofclinicalpathways.com/news/cancer-screenings-diagnosis-and-treatments-decreased-during-covid-19-pandemic

(5) https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-one-million-breast-screenings-missed-because-of-pandemic-12085578

(6) https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/is-a-delayed-cancer-diagnosis-a-consequence-of-covid-19

(7) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2768946

(8) https://www.iknl.nl/covid-19

**Cancer deaths up during lockdown** - (1) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(20)30388-0/fulltext

(2) https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.cuanschutz.edu/cancer-center/increase-in-cancer-deaths-predicted-due-to-covid-19-pandemic%3fhs_amp=true

(3) https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/11/e043828

(4) https://www.ajmc.com/view/covid-19-delays-in-breast-cancer-surgery-could-mean-more-deaths-over-next-decade

(5) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7462880/

(6) **35k excess cancer deaths thanks to lockdowns** - https://archive.is/ZKmaj

**Portion of excess deaths due to lockdowns** - (1) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/13/us/deaths-covid-other-causes.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

(2) https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/1-in-3-excess-deaths-in-the-us-not-directly-caused-by-covid-19

**Malaria deaths to be higher in Africa** - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-malaria-who-idUSKBN28A009?taid=5fc44675585f620001e51792&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

**Disruption of other health and services** - https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/15160

**In Austria more people apparently died from undiagnosed cardiac effects** - https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/41/19/1852/5820829

**Excess cardiac deaths** - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7293523/

**Heart attack diagnoses down** - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7151384/

**33% drop in heart attack patients, 58% drop in stroke patients** - https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/05/dramatic-drops-in-er-visits-likely-led-to-uncounted-deaths/

**Stress related heart problems up thanks to the stress of lockdowns** - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2768093

**15k extra Alzheimer deaths not related to COVID** - https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-pandemic-led-to-surge-in-alzheimers-deaths-11593345601

**People dying because of lockdowns** - https://www.heart.org/en/news/2020/07/10/more-people-are-dying-during-the-pandemic-and-not-just-from-covid-19

**Lockdowns and supply chain disruptions threaten to erase progress made in fighting HIV, TB and Malaria** - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/world/coronavirus-updates.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage#link-752c4fe7

I think we can now see why lockdowns were not considered in any pandemic response protocol. They are destructive, immoral and terrible. And as shown multiple times, they are also ineffective.

The lockdowns of 2020 should go down in history as one of modern society's greatest mistakes, to be a lesson on how NOT to create public policy and should never be repeated ever again in the future. It's a story not of human ingenuity or innovation, but of regression into medieval tactics, using what can only be described as modern day Rain Dances. It's a story of terrible pain and horror that won't end because our pride won't allow us to admit that this was a mistake, an act of hubris on a worldwide scale. These restrictions are a testament to human arrogance.

Happy New Years.